The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rethinking the Bombings towards a Post-Survivor World
Professor Ran Zwigenberg editor Professor Maika Nakao editor Professor Masaya Nemoto editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:15th Oct '26
£75.00
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An innovative exploration of the legacies of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the contestation of memories in the two cities and beyond.
ith 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this timely study
focuses on the challenge of keisho or "inheritance" and the way a new generation of
scholars and activists is re-examining the meaning of the A-bomb and the 80-year history
of commemoration and activism in the stricken cities. Comprising a team of scholars
based in the USA and Japan, many of whom are academics from this new generation, The
"Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki takes a critical look at a range of historical topics
from the 80-year history of post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and beyond.
By examining both global connections and the local history of the two cities, this book
extricates memory from a national Japanese perspective, rethinking the history of survivors,
their experience, and their movement and exploring material culture and the problem of
inheritance and legacy.
Eighty years on, as the immediacy of the past continues to fade, this timely anthology explores important questions of how, why, and which aspects of the history of post-nuclear Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be preserved and retold. It represents a significant milestone in Japanese and Japanese studies perspectives. * Lisa Yoneyama, University of Toronto, author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory *
ISBN: 9781350378445
Dimensions: 236mm x 164mm x 22mm
Weight: 580g
288 pages